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What you want to do is not go to work. You're not missing a thing. The worst thing I did was start work young.
Jimmy Breslin
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Jimmy Breslin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: October 17
Died: 2017
Died: March 19
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Jamaica
Queens
James Earle Breslin
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True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.
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Journalism should be truthful and entertaining. You know, with news and important facts you can entertain people too. Have a little humor. Life isn't all that deadly all the time, but while you're having fun, tell the truth. If every word of a column is deadly serious, I can't read it. It makes me throw up.
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Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.
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Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank.
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Journalism schools are good to get a job, but I don't know what else they are good for. I don't like the word journalism to begin with. It's news reporting, and that consists of using your two feet. The only lesson, then, that you could give people is how to climb stairs, because there are no stories on the first floor.
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Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
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Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
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I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.
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Media, the plural of mediocrity.
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Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.
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I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.
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I think it would be very good if writers and artists take a stand in electoral politics. They've got the ability to put words together that might reach the ears of the people of the city who vote.
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Anything that isn't writing is easy
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Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
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Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
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Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.
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Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?
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The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented.
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People born in Queens, raised to say that each morning they get on the subway and go to the city, have a resentment of Manhattan, of the swiftness of its life and success of the people who live there.
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I always react to news immediately. That's my business.
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